DCHP-3

côte ((2))

[< F côte slope, hill]
(especially in place names)
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

a canton or district, often on the slope of a hill. See 1934 quote.

Quotations

1904
Near Quebec where côtes also abound the same restricted use of the word to the slopes of Cape Diamond as to the slopes of Mount Royal near Montreal, is to be observed.
1934
His widow, a devout Roman Catholic, at once applied for permission to bury his remains in the cemetery of the Côte des Neiges.